re: eye-devouring amoeba seriously?
oh what fun: "I was foolish enough to have went swimming with my lenses in, and now I'm blind!"
imagine the next MD&A: "repeat sales are down due to some customers being incredibly stupid."
one supposes that Coastal could include on their order forms "Please check here to certify you're not an idiot."
digging into the article:
"The actual number of infections is small but treatment is long, painful and not completely effective, meaning some Britons are left blind every year.
and
"many of the 75 infections recorded each year in the UK occur because people fail to follow the instructions they are given by their optician. 'Usually a lot of it is non-compliance. It's patients rinsing their case out in tap water or rinsing their lenses out in tap water. Potentially something as simple as swimming or showering while wearing their lenses increases the risk significantly.'
on a more serious bent though, given that the study was Australian, and most COA activity is in the Americas (iirc), unlikely to be much worry whether the amoebas actively migrate to northern-hemi seas?
this last part in the article might actually be good for business:
"Advice for avoiding the bug includes keeping lenses and cases clean and replacing them regularly.
We can't really hedge much against Darwinism.
GLTA,
R.